Lykov Losing Ground Fast
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The dealer spread the flop:
, and both men checked in turn. On the turn, the 
drew another check from Lykov, and he called a bet of 5,500 from Lundmark. The 
filled out the board, and Maxim passed again. Lundmark took his time with the decision before sliding out a bet of 8,000. It wasn't a large bet, but it represented about two-thirds of Lykov's remaining stack. He didn't seem to like it, but Lykov eventually made the call getting better than 2.5-to-1 on his money.Lundmark showed
for two pair, and Lykov's cards went into the muck. He's dropped all the way back to 5,500 chips, and things aren't looking good for this season's EPT Kyiv winner.
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and the biggest stack
and the middle-est stack
and the shortest stack
. Three kings beat two aces every day of the week, and Rossen's unlikely set earns him the double knockout. He's pushed his way up to about 120,000, now challenging for the Day 1b chip lead.
flop. Kurko bet out 2,500 and Romanello, nonchalantly looking around the room, made the call.
turn and 
river and Romanello flipped 
, which was enough to beat Kurko's 
and put the entertaining yoyo-ing Welshman back up to 27,000 or so. 
. First to speak was Dan Larsen, and he fired out 4,000 chips at the pot. Andrea Benelli raised to 8,600, and that was enough to quickly fold the third player in the hand. Larsen wasn't so easily deterred though, matching the bet with a few more of his chips.
, heads up with a chance for the knockout.
on the turn was a good miss for Szyszko as it gave him the flush draw to work with. Sure enough, a third club peeled off on the river, and Szyszko made his club flush to earn the knockout and the chip lead in the room. He's still stacking up the pot, but it appears he's pipped over the 140,000-chip mark.
